Sunday, February 21, 2016

Jake Gyllenhaal Embraces Musical Theater With A Rendition Of “Maria” From “West Side Story”

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From: NewNowNext

Jake Gyllenhaal got a little more perfect during a tribute to composer Leonard Bernstein at Lincoln Center in New York City Tuesday night, when he took the stage and flexed his musical theater muscle with a rendition of Bernstein’s “Maria” from West Side Story.

The shaky video taken from the audience below doesn’t provide the best visual of the performance, but all you really need here is audio, which is crystal clear.


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We imagine critics would give the performance an 8 out of 10, but if we’re counting face and appearance in his overall score, we’d say he deserves a 12.

Check it out below, as well as another of Jake’s iconic musical theater performances — his rendition of the Dreamgirls classic “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” on Saturday Night Live in 2006.



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